{"id":238145,"date":"2021-04-17T03:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T08:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=238145"},"modified":"2023-01-26T20:08:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:08:59","slug":"iran-tehran-can-no-longer-conceal-its-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-tehran-can-no-longer-conceal-its-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Tehran Can No Longer Conceal Its Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On March 31, the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> held a meeting before a virtual audience of supporters from 12 countries. The event highlighted new plans for coordinating domestic activism in Iran, aimed at overthrowing the theocratic dictatorship and establishing a democratic system in its place. The Council wrote in its summary of the meeting that it anticipates the year ahead to be \u201cdecisive\u201d in promoting that objective, thanks in part to the emerging signs of serious vulnerability at the highest levels of the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

That vulnerability has been visible to all who earnestly looked for it, although not all Western policymakers have been willing to do so. For the better part of four decades, European and American policies toward the Iranian regime have shied away from confronting the regime directly, and have instead promoted the idea that \u201cmoderates\u201d within the ruling system could be convinced to initiate serious reforms that result in Tehran shedding its fundamentalist ideology and expanding its democratic veneer. This perspective has clearly influenced Western approaches to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the preservation of which Europe has prioritized above all else.<\/p>\n

This situation has unfortunately resulted in the European Union and most of its member states turning a blind eye to alarming trends in Iran\u2019s malign activities outside of the nuclear sphere. In June 2018, for instance, European authorities thwarted a terrorist attack on a gathering of Iranian expatriates that had been organized near Paris by the NCRI. Despite the fact that dozens of Western lawmakers and scholars were in attendance at that event, their governments remained silent about the incident even after a Belgian court issued a guilty verdict for four Iranian operatives, including a high-ranking diplomat<\/a> from the regime\u2019s embassy in Vienna.<\/p>\n

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